Candida Höfer is a German photographer best known for her large-scale color images of empty interiors.٨artist focuses primarily on cultural and institutional spaces, including libraries, zoos, and opera houses. These spaces, often absent of human figures—as seen in her photobook Architecture of Absence (2004)—give each image an eerie monumentality. “Spaces may or may not invite the image—if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time,” she said of her work. “It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.” Born in Eberswalde, Germany in 1944, Höfer studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Thomas Struth and Axel Hütte. The Becher’s approach to photography as a conceptual tool in producing an archive of places had a profound effect on Höfer and her peers. The artist currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Her works are held in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others
Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach.[1] From 1997 to 2000, she taught as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Höfer is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award, as part of the Sony World Photography awards.[2] She is based in Cologne.
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